It is important to note that sys_getloadavg() does not return a percentage, and the numbers that it returns are completely meaningless if you do not know the number of CPU cores. To get the number as a percentage you need to divide the value by the number of CPU cores in the system. (eg: if the value is 0.5 and you have two cores, then you are using 25% of the CPU on average). Here is a simple function to get the values as a percent:
<?php
function percentloadavg(){
$cpu_count = 1;
if(is_file('/proc/cpuinfo')) {
$cpuinfo = file_get_contents('/proc/cpuinfo');
preg_match_all('/^processor/m', $cpuinfo, $matches);
$cpu_count = count($matches[0]);
}
$sys_getloadavg = sys_getloadavg();
$sys_getloadavg[0] = $sys_getloadavg[0] / $cpu_count;
$sys_getloadavg[1] = $sys_getloadavg[1] / $cpu_count;
$sys_getloadavg[2] = $sys_getloadavg[2] / $cpu_count;
return $sys_getloadavg;
}
?>
